platitude

英 [ˈplætɪtjuːd]

美 [ˈplætɪtuːd]

n.  陈词滥调; 老生常谈

复数：platitudes　

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BNC.19933 / COCA.20203

牛津词典

noun

• 陈词滥调；老生常谈
  a comment or statement that has been made very often before and is therefore not interesting

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 陈词滥调；套话
  Aplatitudeis a statement which is considered meaningless and boring because it has been made many times before in similar situations.
  1. Why couldn't he say something original instead of spouting the same old platitudes?
     他为什么就不能讲些有新意的话，而不是喋喋不休地说些老生常谈呢？
  2. ...a stream of platitudes, outlining many problems but offering few solutions.
     概述了很多问题、但几乎没有提出解决办法的一串陈词滥调

英英释义

noun

• a trite or obvious remark
  Synonym:clichebanalitycommonplacebromide

双语例句

• With reference to ordinary company governance, it has been a platitude for a long time; but the particularity of financial holding group, can never compared with that of ordinary company.
  关于一般公司的治理，已是老生常谈的问题，但金融控股集团的公司治理特殊性，却远非一般公司所能对比。
• It reduced the romance to platitude, and the third person in the drama to the appearance of a stick.
  这就使浪漫色彩大为减少，而使这幕戏剧中的第三者成为一个呆头呆脑的角色。
• When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.
  当亚里士多德说，人类天生是政治动物，他的主张，不只是老生常谈，或是陈腔滥调。
• Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude& but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance.
  当然用一句英语句子来阐述，只是些陈词滥调&但是事实上，在成年人存在的日常鸿沟中，陈词滥调可能很重要，它可以决定你的生死。
• Since the Opium War in the mid-nineteenth century which was in the era of big upheavals, the commonplace platitude pedestrian banal Qing Dynasty had been caught in the unprecedented crisis.
  腐朽的清王朝，在十九世纪中期鸦片战争以来的时代大变局中，遭遇到了数千年来前所未见的危机。
• That's no platitude; the boundary between the two is surprisingly clear.
  这并非陈词滥调；这两者之间的界限极其清晰。
• The problem appears to be a platitude in fact, but not many artists can answer it. Therefore, there appear the difference of the current artists and the diversity of the meaning.
  问题看似老生常谈，实际上并不是许多人能做到的，因为此，就分别出了当下的艺术家的差异和意义。
• I am the champion of the platitude.
  我是这种老生常谈的冠军。
• The talk is no more than a platitude.
  这番话无非是老生常谈。
• End your speech with an attitude, not a platitude.
  用一种有力的态度结束你的演讲，而不是用那些陈词滥调。